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The Real Reason General Flynn Was Forced to Resign
February 16, 2017 - 2:43pm
The Real Reason General Flynn Was Forced to Resign
http://www.anonews.co/general-flynn-resign/
"In reality, Flynn’s conversation with Kislyak was merely the excuse that establishment neo-cons and neo-libs from both parties were desperately searching for. They wanted him gone from the very beginning. This was a deep state coup".
Flynn is an InfoWars conspiracy theorist and believed that Islam and Christianity are at war. He's as big of a clown as his former boss. Good riddance,asshole.
Because he lied. Or because he decided to take the fall.
Deep state coup? Is that like deep dish pie?
All very true however I think the Anonymous article points out some very good points about who and why.
This is a new catch phrase, sort of like “coloured revolutions”.
My understanding the phrase is to cover “the unnamed and unseen public government employees that saves the state from collapsing.”
#pizzagate
And lusted for war with Iran.
Except that as originally used by a certain type of left-winger, it seemed to mean anything the state does in secret, especially if it somehow involves subterfuge or crime. As such, it's been used to include things like the Bay Of Pigs, even though that wasn't preventing the American state from collapsing. (It failed, but the state is still there.)
The past few days, I've seen it used in a more complimentary sense, but with the meaning that you ascribe to it, something like "The permanent members of the bureaucracy who resist illegitmate pressure from interloping elected officials." Which I suppose might verge on subterfuge, though as I say, the intended meaning really does seem to be more positve. We're supposed to be glad that the CIA is refusing to share intel with Trump, for example.
The place I remember seeing this complimentary usage was Slate.com, whose writers sometimes tend toward the slapdash. So they might not have been aware of its previous negative connotations.
Yup. all the more reason (as some articles have speculated) why it doesn't make sense that he'd do this on his own. So who do you think told him to?
Slate writers (or anyone else) deciding to fight for ownership of the "deep state" meme would be a very positive development, I think. As opposed to just ceding ownership of "deep state" to the right.
we have anonymous siding with Trump and the righteous Flynn. huh.
The writer talks about "globalists" being behind the supposed coup. Whatever the laudable usage that term has occassionally found on the left, it seems a little tainted to me, via its currency among the isolationist Right, monetary-reformers etc. I'm wondering what the particular slant of that Anonymous group is. My understanding is that they are not a centralized orgnaization with one coherent party line.
They spell it (((globalists)))
Flynn apparently lied to the FBI.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/gen-michael-flynn-allegedly-lied-to-the...
Schadenfruede
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2017/feb/14/michael-flynn-rnc-...
For any here who haven't heard of it, the triple parentheses is a signal used by the alt-right to indicate a Jew.
Seems complicated. Even Adbusters went with a very recognizable yellow star.
A sheriff's star!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/five-eyes-network-threat-1.3986265?cmp=rss
"Canadian intelligence agencies could end up feeling the pain of the bruising political fight unfolding in Washington over leaks and the alleged ties of some in the Trump administration to Russia, experts warned on Thursday."